Samaritan Care Center and Villa

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive long-term care rating. This turned out to be its best category. In this area, we gave this nursing home an A. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This facility's vaccination records weren't as favorable some of its other datapoints in this area, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.08108 percent of its residents. We'd love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing grade features a host of factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 5.7 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place provides. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average.

The last area we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home received a B-. This actually ended up being this facility's worst category. This is still not a major area of concern. In our short-term care rating, we try to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure is below average.